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CASH GARRYING APPARATUS. No. 320,168. Patented June 16, 1885.

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DAVID HALL RICE, OF LOVELL, MASSACHUSETTS.

CASH-CARRYING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 320,168, dated June 16, 1885.

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T0 all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, DAVID HALL RICE, of Lowell, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cash-Carrier Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

illy invention relates to cash-carrying apparatus; and it consists in certain improvements therein, substantially as hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of a portion of a track provided with my improvements and a carrier thereon. Fig. 2 is a view of the same without the carrier, taken from the right-hand end of Fig. 1.

My invention relates to improvements in the deecting apparatus employed to divert the course of the carrier downward through the open trap in the track at a station where it is to be delivered, for which deflector I made application for Letters Patent upon the 3d day of April, A. D. 1885, Serial No. 161,085; and it further relates to combining the mechanism of such deector with the trap closing and opening mechanism shown and described in the Letters Patent No. 314,263, granted to me March 24, 1885.

In my said former application I showed and described a movable defiector operated by the mechanism of the trap-section, or other suitable mechanism, to move into the path of the carrier and deflect it in a downward direc tion when the trap was open, and to rise out of the path of the carrier when the trap was closed to allow the carrier to pass it going to the station beyond.

One object of my present invention is to lock the movable dedector in position when down, so that it shall not be elevated by the impinging of a swiftly-moving carrier with it. This I accomplish as follows:

A is the track or way,composed of the rails a a and two swinging sections, a' a, forming the trap, pivoted at at a2 in the usual manner. It is supported upon frames a3 a3 held in position by longitudinal bars a'L at, and suspended in the usual manner. Two side guides, ci a5, serve as additional braces to the frames a3 a3, and by their flat inner faces to cause the carrier to drop vertically down between them through the trap. These latter have an outer and inner vertical face united by a narrow longitudinal central rib between them.

D is the deflector. It is formed of a single piece of spring-wire, d, bent, as shown, so that its middle portion shall form the deilecting surface for the carrier to strike against over the part of the trap at which the carrier iirst arrives, and with its ends expanded so as to pass down on each side ofthe path ofthe carrier toward the direction the latter is going and pass through the pivoted sleeves d d', which turn freely upon pivots in one of the frames a3. The ends of the wire d pass down below the track and are united by a crossbar, cl2, to the center of which is attached a weight, cl3, sufficient to overcome the opposite end of the deflector and tilt it up out of the way of the carrier passing over the closed trap. The wire d between its defiecting portion and its pivots d is first carried along in a direction approximating to the horizontal, and then bent downward suddenly at d* on each side, thus forming a cam-shaped surface. At the end of the trap which the carrier enters is placed a cross-bar, c, supported at each end by the ends of the wire e2, which is carried upward and forward on each side of the trap, passing between the outer and inner faces (on each side of the trap) of the guide-pieces a5, the central connecting-rib connecting those faces being cut away at that point to let the wire e2 pass through, and the wire being pivoted at c on each side between said faces. The wire e2 passes upward and forward outside the side bars at, and its middle part is bent so as to cross the path of the carrier above said side-bars and beyond the two parts of the wire d of the detlector D in such a position as to hold the latter down into the path of the carrier and to be below the cam part of it, d4. This transverse part of wire e2 is loaded with aweight, c3, fixed thereon, as shown, and made in the form of a cylinder for convenience. This weight c3 is sufficient to bring the wire e2 and the deflector D down into the position last above described.

To the opposite side of bar e from the wire e2 is attached the rigid spline e, projectiing longitudinally of the track in the path of the carrier, which is supplied with a groove registering with the spline if it is to pass over without moving it and fall through the trap,

and is without such registering-groove if intended to pass beyond this station. The two parts of the wire d which bear against the IOO weight e3, as shown in the drawings, pass it at such an angle to its wire arms e2 that the weight locks the deflector firmly in the position shown, wires d and e2 approaching a right angle to each other between their pivots and these points of contact. If, therefore, a carrier, passing over spline e4 without moving it, strikesunder the detlector as shown, the latter is so locked by this arrangement that its spring-wire only yields between the point of impingement and locking-weight e3 or its wire e2 at that place. The carrier is, therefore, surely`l deflected through the trap, and the spring of the deiiector, as described, aids in this result and prevents noise from the blow of the carrier. When a carrier comes along which is to pass by this station, it rolls upon the spline e4 and depresses it and the bare, turning the wire e2 upon its pivots e e and raising the weigl ted end e3 to the position shown by the dotted lines on Fig. l. This releases the detlector, and its weight d3 tilts it up out of the way of the carrier, allowing the latter to pass under, when the weight e3 falls upon the upper side of deflector-wire d and brings it back to thelocked position and raises spline e4 and bar e upward again.

This mechanism operates with the minimum of power, as all its parts turn upon pivots, and the carrier does not lift the deiector, it openingautomatically when unlocked by the carrier.

This mechanism is combined with the trap to carry out the second part of myinvention, as follows: 0n the upper side of the bar e and under the radial arms of the trap-sections a a two studs or pins project from the bar in such position that as the bar is lifted they will press under said radial arms and lift the trapsections to the Aposition shown, and as described in my said former patent, leaving the trap open when the deflector is locked down.

The weight c3 is, of course, made heavy enough to lift the pivoted trap-sections a a', as well as to depress the deflector.

When the spline c4 is depressed and the bar e withdrawn downward, the trap-sections fall and close the trap for the carrier to pass over at the same time as the deflect-or rises out of its way, as before described.

It is evident that the mechanism for moving the deector-lock may be separated from that for closing the trap, if desired. It is also evident that a similar deflector and locking device may be used with a trap which is normally closed and is opened by the carrier to pass throughit, if desired.

The deector mechanism is also capable of being used without the trap to arrest a carrier upon the way.

Gis the carrier, and d d6 are Wire rods between which it falls and slides down to any desired point.

What I claim as new and of my invention 1S 1. In combination with the way and a4 trap adapted to lock said detlector in' the path of 75 the carrier, and having one portion of said device projected into the path of the carrier in position to enable the carrier to move and actuate the same, substantially as described.

3. The combinationv of the way, the pivoted detlector D, automatically moving out of the path of the carrier, and the pivoted Weight c3, adapted when released to descend against the inclined surface of the deflector and move and lock the same into the path of the carrier, substantially as described.

4. The combination ofthe way, the trap or space therein for the descent of the carrier, the pivoted deflector D and its pivoted lockingarm e?, provided with the spline e? projecting into the path of the carrier, substantially as described.

5. The combination of the way having thespace therein for the descent of the carrier, the pivoted defiector D, the pivoted'arm e2, carrying `the bar e and spline e* on the opposite side of its pivot, and the pivoted trapsections a a', substantially as described.

6. rIhe combination of the way having the space therein for the descent of the carrier, the pivoted trap-sections a a', and the pivoted arm e2, carrying upon one end of it the part e3 into and out of the path of the carrier and upon the other end the bar e and spline e4 projecting into 'the path of the carrier, substantially as described.

7. In combination with'the way, the trap adapted tobe closed to pass the carrier over ,the same, and the deflector. D, formed with a deiiccting portion swinging above the path of the carrier and supported upon the pivoted bifurcated arm d passing down upon each side of that path, and counter-weighted, substantially as described.

8. The combination of the way formed of railsa a, the trap-sections a aswinging upon pivots parallel to said way, and the side guides a5 a5, extending' above and parallel to said track-sections on their inside guiding-faces, substantially as described.

9. The combination of the way having the trap or space in the same and the deector D, secured in the path of the carriers and formed of spring metal or material, in its projecting and detlecting portion impinged upon by the carrier, substantially as described.

DAVID HALL RICE.

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